Chocolate No-Bake Cookies

They're a family favorite, a classic in our clan. From lazy Saturdays to rushed Tuesdays they are the cookie we all grew up learning how to make. Simple easy and always delicious, unlike many other recipes however, there is no wiggle room. Do it wrong, substitute ingredients or leave something out and like throwing acetic acid and sodium bicarbonate together, all you've done is created a bubbly wet mess with house hold ingredients. 

Cookie Ingredients:
2 cups Sugar
1/2 cup Cocoa
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp Vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup Coconut (optional)

Cookie Directions:
In a medium saucepan mix sugar, cocoa, milk and butter. Stir constantly with wire whisk till it reaches a low boil. Boil for one minute (no less, no more) stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add Peanut butter and vanilla stirring till they are fully incorporated. Use a wooden spoon to stir in oatmeal, mix thoroughly. (If adding coconut remove 1/4 cup of the oatmeal from the recipe, making the final ingredients added 2 and 3/4 cup oatmeal and 1 cup coconut mixing thoroughly). Before the mixture cools, using two spoons drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto wax paper. As they cool they will harden and become firm.

These Chocolate No-bakes freeze really well, making them perfect to make and freeze. So they can be pulled out whenever needed. These are always a great hit that take only about a half an hour total for prep cooking and cleaning up afterward. Small secret to how I make them and reduce my waste in the process. Instead of using wax paper, which then makes its way into the landfill I use a clean thin bendable cutting board  Allowing the cookies to cool and harden as well as providing an easy surface to peal the cookies from when hardened. Saving our world's resources one batch at a time (I'm being deliberately facetious).